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(No Model.) Y J. S. COLE.

GOMBINED CLOTHES RACK, IRONING TABLE, AND CLOTHES DRIER.

No. 427,051. Patented May 6, 1890.

351;; 3 Hozmmgo JOSEPH S. COLE, OF ALBANY, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LEWVIS H. BALDXVIN, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED CLOTHES-RACK, IRONING-TABLE, AND CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,051, dated May 6, 1890.

Application filed November 9, 1889. $erial No. 329,821. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7 ends of the legs 8, and thus adjust the bars Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. COLE, a citi- 13 to different heights.

zen of the United States, residing at Albany, 16 represents an ironing-board, provided on in the county of Delaware and State of Indiits under surface and near one end with deaua, have invented a new and useful Comtachable leaves 17 of hinges. The opposite 55 bined Clothes Rack, Ironing Table, and leaves 18 are secured to the inner faces of one Clothes-Drier, of which the following is a of the bars 13, so that the board may be despecification. tachably mounted within the bars and re- This invention has relation to a combined moved when not in use. The board is covzo cl0thes-rack, ironing-table, and clothes-drier; ered with a suitable padding, and the upper 60 and the invention consists in certain novel end of the same is reduced to form a bosomfeatures of construction, hereinafter specified, board 19. and particularly pointed out in the claims. Upon the upper tie-bar 2 of the series con- Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a necting the legs 1, and upon the reduced opperspective of acombined clothes rack, drier, posite ends thereof, are loosely mounted a 65 and ironing-table constructed in accordance pair of parallel bars 20, the ends of which are with my invention, the same being arranged connected by a cross-bar 21, the bars and in position for ironing. Fig. 2 is a similar 21 forminganintermediate drop-frame. Upon View, the board removed and the frame arthe bars 21 is pivotally connected a shorter 2o ranged as for drying clothes. Fig. 3 is a depair of bars 22, which depend from the cross- 70 tail of the construction-of the joint between bar 21, and are connected at their lower ends the side bars of the swinging top frame, the by a cross-bar 23, the ends of which are pivintermediate drop-frame, and the'rearwardlyoted in openings formed in the side bars-13 disposed legs. Fig. 4- is a detail of one end of near their rear ends, thus forming a lower the ironing-board. extensioirframe 7 5 Like numerals of reference indicate like Upontl1eupperbar2of theseries connecting parts in all the figures. the legs 1 there is loosely pivoted within the 1 1 represent two opposite parallel inclined bars 20 a second pair of parallel bars 24:, of vertically-disposed legs, which are connected greater length than the bars 20, and connected at their upper and lower ends by cross-bars at their middle by a cross-bar 25 and at their 80 2 and 3. 1 ends by a cross-bar 26, the extremities of 5 represents a series of cross-bars--in this which pass through the bars 2a and into openinstance two connecting the legs 1. The ings 27, formed in the upper ends of apair of upper cross-bar 2 has reduced ends 6 enterbars 28, connected at their lower ends by a 3 5 ing openings 7 in the upper ends of the legs 1. cross-bar 29. The side bars 21, connected as 85 8 represents a pair of vertically-disposed described, form a swinging top frame, While inclined supporting-legs, having at their midthe shorter bars 28 and their cross-bars constidle outwardly-extending studs 9, adapted to tute a top detent extension-frame. The bars I take into circular openings 10, formed in the 28 terminate at their lower ends in studs or bars 1, whereby the legs 1 and 8 are pivotally tenon's 30, which are adapted to take into 0 connected. Across-bar 11 and a second 'crosseither one of a series of pairs of perforations bar 12 connect the lower and upper ends of 31, formed in the upper surface of the side the legs 8. bars 13, or in a pair of perforations 32, formed 13 represents opposite horizontal side bars, in the lower ends of the side bars 20, as shown the rear ends of which are connected by by dotted lines in Fig. 2. 95 hinges 14 t0 the front edge of the legs 1, and I have for the purposes of clearer descripthe under surfaces or lower edges of the side tion termed the parts comprehended by the bars 13 are provided with a series of inwardlynumerals 2a and 25 the swinging top frame, disposed inclined recesses 15, adapted to take and parts 28 and 29 the top detent extenover the crossbar 12, connecting the upper sion-frame; the parts 20 and 21 the inter- IOO mediate drop-frame; the part 22, with its connecting bar 23, the lower extensionirame; the parts 1 and 8 thecrossed legs, and the side bars 13 the board-supporting frame. By this means the confusion of terms by calling all the parts bars may be avoided.

\Vhen the ironing-board is in position and the frame acts as a support for the ironingboard, the swinging top frame and its detent extension are swung upward out of the way, as shown in Fig. 1, and, in connection with the remainder of the frame formed by the crossed legs and intermediate drop-frame and its extension and their connecting-bars, serve as a rack for supporting articles during ironing. hen, however, the ironing-board is removed, the swinging top frame and its detent extension are swung down, and the tenons 30 either enter into the perforations 31 or 32, as may be desirable and convenient, and thus the rack serves as a clothes-drier.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The combination, with inclined side bars 8 and the longer side bars 1, the former eonneeted at their upper ends by the cross-bar 12 and the latter by a series of bars 5 and an upper bar 2, of the table-supporting bars 13, pivoted to the bars 1 and adj ustably connected to the connecting-bar 12, the intermediate drop-frame, the side bars 20 of which are pivoted at their upper ends to the bar 2, and the lower extension-frame, the side bars 22 of which are pivoted at their upper ends to the lower ends of the bars 20 and at their lower ends to the table'supporting bars 13, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with inclined side bars 8 and the longer side bars 1, the former connected at their upper ends by the cross-bars 12 and the latter by a series of bars 5 and an upper bar 2, of the table-supporting, bars 13, pivoted to the bars 1 and adjustably connected to the connecting-bar 12, the intermediate drop-frame, the side bars 20 of which are pivoted at their upper ends to the bar 2, the lower extensiorrframc, the side bars 22 of which are pivoted at their upper ends to the lower ends of the bars 20 and at their lower ends to the table-supporting bars, the top swinging frame, the bars 2% of which are pivoted at their lower ends to the bar 2, and the top detent extension-frame, the side bars 28 of which are at one end pivoted to the free ends of the swinging top frame and the opposite ends of which are provided with tenons adapted to enter openings 31, formed in the table-supporting bars 13, or similar openings Z 2, formed in the side bars 20, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH S. COLE. WVitnesses:

A. D. STICK, E. B. DIXON. 

